WGR

It’s a great week to be a sports fan. There’s the Olympics that started on Friday. I was up until 3 a.m. watching badminton and equestrian events of all things. If you go to nbcolympics.com later on in the day, you’ll be able to check out some of the events live. You have to download Microsoft Silverlight (which isn’t that bad) and you get nice little buffet of sports to choose from.

Personally, I like to watch some of the weirder sports that you don’t get to see every day like women’s team handball or judo.

But this is a video game blog (that’s Sega’s Beijing Olympics 2008 pictured up there) and without further ado, here’s this weeks highlights.

It’s been a pretty good week for fighting games. First off, Soulcalibur IV arrived this week. It’s good solid fun so far, and we’ll have a review in the paper in a couple of days. Second, the Street Fighter film is coming along and it doesn’t hurt that it has Kristin Kreuk in the lead role. Lastly, Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe is moving up my must-play list even with an overpowered Superman.

2. We had a couple of reviews last week. Casual Games Maven Rosanna Chea had the task of reviewing Cake Mania 2. And unfortunately, it didn’t take the cake. Meanwhile, Danny has a review on American McGee’s Grimm and (sticking with the food cliches) it wasn’t his cup of tea.